Chapter 45: Flying Fish Robes

Fang Xie got into the carriage, threw the horizontal knife aside, took the wine bag from Mu Xiaoxiao's hand and poured it hard. The big dog outside the car waved his whip, allowing the carriage to speed up and keep the red-sleeved convoy at a distance. There is no doubt that if you catch up and go with the people of the Red Sleeves, it will be more easy to deal with the dangers along the way, after all, there is a perverted old cripple on the side of the Red Sleeves.

Although this old lame man has never shown any extraordinary strength, Fang Xie is sure that an old man who can guard the entire red-sleeved move alone will never be a wine bag and rice bag. You must know that the red sleeves of Lu Dao recruit so many warblers and swallows, is there still a lack of bees and butterflies over the years?

Since the old lame man can carry it with all his might, it is by no means as unbearable as it appears.

"Now it is certain that there are people in the Great Sui court."

Fang Jiefang put down the wine bag and found that his palms were a little wet.

"If I'm not mistaken, something must have happened to Fan Gucheng."

Mu Xiao's waist stiffened, and he subconsciously looked at Fang Jie. But seeing this young man who had never shown a sad look, the corners of his eyes were already moist. This kind of solution is the first time Mu Xiaoxiao has seen it in fifteen years.

"Perhaps...... It's just your own crankiness. ”

She could only comfort.

Fang Xie shook his head slowly, and his voice was a little hoarse: "Even I don't know my background, so it is impossible for the imperial court to use such a powerful killer in collusion with the people who chased and killed us before." Moreover, the Great Sui Imperial Court has always been arrogant and powerful to the outside world, and it is impossible for me to collude with people from other countries because of a small person like me. So it's a lot easier to speculate...... As I said just now, the reason why the people of the imperial court killed me must be that someone didn't want me to enter the martial arts academy. ”

"I don't have any secrets on me that make them afraid, if I have to say that there is, then it is easy to think of Li Xiaozong. The few people who died in Fan Gu that night should have been sent by the imperial court. The reason why they wanted to kill me was because the imperial court wanted to inspect the case of the border army's greed for ink. In order to escape, Li Xiaozong put all the blame on me and tried to kill me to clear himself, but those people died, and Li Xiaozong must have no way to explain to the court. ”

"What I'm thinking about now is what method Li Xiaozong used to cover up this matter. There were too many people who knew about the matter that day, and all the border soldiers knew about it...... If you want to hide it...... Unless ......"

He paused, as if he didn't want to continue.

"Unless you kill all the border soldiers, and then make up an excuse that there is a war? And you are the only person in the border army who is still alive, so there must be people in the court who don't want you to enter the imperial capital. If you want to hide such a big case, it is definitely not something that a yamen of the Ministry of War can do. I said, why are you so unlucky? Dao Ye, I can only say to you immeasurably fucking Tianzun when I hear it. ”

This was not said by Mu Xiaoxiao, nor was it a big dog.

It's Xiang Qingniu.

Fang Xie was stunned for a moment, and looked at the fat Taoist who opened the curtain and got into the carriage.

"When did you get in the car?"

Fang Xie asked with some surprise.

Xiang Qingniu rubbed his nose and said proudly: "I told you a long time ago that I am a very high kind of master. Not to mention that you are such a broken carriage, with two guards who are barely ordinary masters. I wanted to enter the world's first-class heavily guarded place, and no one could stop me. ”

"Of course ......"

Xiang Qingniu sat down, unceremoniously turned out some food and hugged it in his arms: "It's because I'm so hungry that I can't stand it, and my body is fluttering and I can't ride a horse." Although I am a top master, when I am hungry, I will tremble all over my body and lose my strength, and even my hands and feet will tremble, which is very uncomfortable. So when I feel hungry, I have to eat. So...... I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation, but I came to find something to eat. ”

Fang Xie was silent for a while, took the somewhat greasy roasted pheasant leg from his hand, took out a small paper bag from his arms and handed it to Xiang Qingniu: "If you feel like this again in the future, you will eat two pieces of this." ”

"Candy?"

Xiang Qingniu opened the paper bag and couldn't help but pout: "Can't you stop being so stingy?" If I eat you a pheasant leg, will you die of distress? ”

"It works."

Fang Xie didn't bother to explain anything.

Xiang Qingniu glanced at Fang Xie suspiciously, he didn't like to eat slimy candy the most, because his hands and feet gradually began to tremble, and the feeling of panic in his heart became stronger and stronger, so he had to grab a handful and stuff it into his mouth. When he wanted to continue eating, he was stopped by Fang Xie and re-wrapped the paper bag and stuffed it into his arms.

"That's enough, sit still for a while, and you'll be fine."

Xiang Qingniu was stunned, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Do you know the way of medicine?" ”

"I don't understand, but I happen to know what's wrong with you. Before...... I had this problem a long, long time ago, and it would be nice to eat a few pieces of candy. ”

"What is this?"

"It's also a little difficult for me to explain to you, in simple terms, you can understand that the stomach loses sugar."

Fang Xie pointed to the big dog outside the car, and then pointed to Mu Xiaowaist and said, "He is a stomach loss, and she is a stomach loss...... It's not a serious illness, but it's uncomfortable. ”

After a while, Xiang Qingniu was suddenly pleasantly surprised to find that the symptoms of being humble in his hands and feet and panicking in his heart had really disappeared, which made him immediately have a little more admiration for Fang Xie and more joy.

"You don't have to see anything in your mouth in the future, just bring a packet of candy with you."

Fang Xie said lightly.

"How can I thank you, why don't I release water during the martial arts academy exam, so that you can easily get in?"

"Don't come to this set...... Tell me who those Assassins were before. ”

"This ...... It's a secret...... Oops, don't rob me of my sugar, I said no? ”

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Fenglindu

This is the largest ferry that must be passed from Xiangcheng to the imperial capital, and after crossing Xiangshui by boat from Fenglin Ferry, it is calculated that Longxi County and enters Hedong County. Xiangshui is one of the five most famous rivers in the Great Sui and the largest river in the western part of the Great Sui. The narrowest part is also a hundred zhang wide, and this section of Fenglindu is the smoothest place in Xiangshui, and dozens of ferries go back and forth every day.

On the side of the Maple Forest Ferry Pier is a reed pond, and many people fish here every day. If you are lucky, you can catch dozens of fish a day in this crowded place. It is said that a long time ago, there was an old man who once caught a big fish more than ten meters long on the edge of this trestle bridge, the fish was called Iron Head, and the strength was infinite, and I don't know how to bite the hook and drag the old man from the shore into the water.

This ironhead fish is a real thing, and many boaters have seen this large fish show its back on the surface of the river. If you encounter it, you must throw away the pig's head necessary for river boating, which is considered filial piety to the river god.

It's just that this story has been passed on for many years, and the big fish was the protagonist, but then I don't know how the road changed its taste, and now the most popular version is that the old man carried the fishing rod with one hand, and he actually dragged the big iron head more than ten meters long out of the river.

The ironhead fish is fierce and abnormal, and the mouth full of steel teeth is about to be fierce. The old man stretched out his hand and pointed out the head of the big fish in the middle of a ray of golden light, and drank a sentence in his mouth: "Evil animal! Don't hurry up yet! ”

Then the big fish gradually shrunk, and finally turned into a human form and bowed at the feet of the old man. The old man remembered that his nature was not evil, and accepted him as a disciple, and since then he has traveled far away without a trace.

This story is so vivid that many children along the river will go to the river every day to rub the soil for incense, kowtow to the east, hoping that one day the old man will come in the clouds and take them as apprentices.

Legends are legends, and they can't be true.

But in the past few days, a middle-aged man has been fishing here every day a few dozen meters away from the trestle. This man came with a large hat, dressed in gray cloth, and came every day with a bench, a fishing basket, and a fishing rod, and sat all day long. I don't see how many fish he catches every day, but his interest is still there.

The local ferryman found that since there was a middle-aged man fishing on this shore. There are also a lot more people setting up stalls near the trestle, all of them are unfamiliar faces. Others stumbled upon a number of rare horses tethered to a secret place in the forest behind the reeds.

The middle-aged man who was fishing didn't talk to people much, and occasionally someone would come over and say a few polite words before leaving. So this person aroused the fishermen's idea, and someone went up to talk to the other person, who was also very easy-going, and spoke politely, and could hear that he was speaking with an accent from the capital, which the people called Beijing Pianzi, and the words were clear, which was very different from the local accent.

This person is very ordinary-looking, and if he walks into the crowd, he will never attract the attention of others. Such people may meet hundreds of them every day in a bustling city. Medium build, neither fat nor thin, no beard, even if he sat by the river for several days, he did not tan, and his face was a little as if he was sick. Sword eyebrows, bright eyes, high nose, slightly thin and cool lips, should have been a very beautiful guy when he was young.

However, although there are a lot of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes now, and there is always a trace of fatigue between his eyebrows, he still has a manly charm and looks very calm and calm.

Every day at noon, someone would bring him food. The meal is not extravagant and exquisite, almost just a few plates of small stir-fries, but there must be a fish, whether it is fried or fried.

And wine.

Most of the ferrymen are good drinkers, and you can smell the aroma of wine wafting from afar. So someone cheekily brought a piece of bacon and went over to beg for a drink, but the man did not refuse, always smiled and nodded, and then stayed with the fisherman to drink with him. So gradually, this person made a lot of friends in Fenglindu.

But one thing that makes people feel unpleasant is that the man only needs a pot of wine for each meal. Ten people drink it, or one person drinks, and when the pot is finished, they don't drink anymore. Even if the fisherman brought out his own wine to persuade him, he would never touch it.

So the fishermen finally came to a consensus...... This is a good guy and a weirdo.

This man appeared at noon on the sixth day of Fenglindu, and his family came to deliver food and the pot of wine as usual. The person who delivered the meal was a very young man, with handsome eyebrows, a burly and strong body, although he was also dressed in cloth, but his body was very clean and refreshing. The only fly in the ointment was that the young man was blind in one right eye. There was a scar that ran straight across his right eye, from his forehead to his chin.

Everyone thought that this must be the son of the middle-aged man. So everyone said that this young man was very filial and would come on time every day to bring food to his father.

The blind young man put down the food box and lowered his head to whisper a few words.

The middle-aged man who was fishing nodded slightly, then waved his hand, and the young man immediately turned to leave, but was stopped by the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man pointed to the hem of the young man's cloth robe, and said in a flat tone, "Tianbao...... Remember how you were blind? ”

The young man named Tianbao's body was shocked, and his eyes were full of irrepressible fear: "Go back to the town and comfort the envoy, and dare not forget your humble duties." ”

The middle-aged man snorted: "The next time there is such a low-level mistake, I will cut off your other eye." For those who are blind in both eyes, it is naturally useless for me to keep them. ”

This man, whose real name is Gao Tianbao, immediately leaned over and hid the brocade robe that showed a corner inside.

This brocade robe is very beautiful, dark red, with faint silver lines.

Even if the people in the officialdom in the imperial capital only saw the corner of this brocade robe, they would recognize it and then feel terrified.

Flying Fish Robe